Airtel starts offering VoLTE in Mumbai, to add more cities soon

MUMBAI, INDIA: After Reliance Jio, Airtel also announced the launch of its Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services in Mumbai today to offer customers HD quality voice calls along with faster call set up time. There will be no additional data charges for VoLTE and calls will be billed as per existing plan or packs benefits.

The company plans to roll out VoLTE across the country over the next few months.

In the case of non-availability of 4G, Airtel VoLTE calls will automatically fall back on 3G/2G network. Airtel VoLTE will also allow customers to continue with their data sessions at 4G speeds while the call is in progress.

Abhay Savargaonkar, Director – Networks, Bharti Airtel said, “Over the next few months, we will rapidly accelerate the deployment of VoLTE to cover all key geographies to bring HD quality calling to our customers. We keenly look forward to our device partners enabling Airtel VoLTE on their smartphones.”